Should the government provide child day care centers for working parents?

Yes, For workers making $8 an hour paying $400 dollars a month for day care how are they to live.
If the goverment does not have day care then the work place should provide free services for it's employees.

Do "beauty" contests (Mr. America, Miss America, etc.) serve any purpose in society?

Miss America does not serve any purpose in society at all. Only people this is good for is the designers who make rediculas clothes to advertise them, rich schmucky people getting chances to parade thier crap around.
It's absolutley useless, It's like a soft core strip tease.

Should the federal government provide health care for all citizens who cannot afford their own?

Yes. Yes we can. I think the government should provide health care for people who cannot afford it. I think if the government gives three billion dollars to egypt in military aid, why wouldn't they provide for thier own citizens the essential things that are needed to live. health care is necessary weather you are sick or not sick, weather you get sick a lot, or not get sick at all, that one time you need it if you don't have it, most people go bankrupt. Universal health care should be universal, not just in america but across the world, hospitals should be public and not privatized, they should be mandated by the government like the public schools do, so one doctor cannot charge people what ever price he sees fit, it should be realistic. private health care is the reason health care prices have gone up this much. Private Pharmacists coming out with drugs not administered by the fda, and getting people sicker, and destroying the youth with pain killers. Yes, to Universal Health care. Yes, we can.

Should homosexuals be permitted to serve in the armed forces?

I Am 100 PERCENT AGAINST THE LIFE STYLE THEY LIVE.
As far as gay's serving openly in the military, or having a right to be legally married, I can care less about. They live the life style that they do, I don't agree with it, so what they do with thier personal life further then that I do not care. I would not want my kids to be around them, being taught that it's okay to be gay, I would not care if they are gay or not as long as they too are holding that machine gun and actually shoot.

Should genetic engineering be controlled by law?

Genetic Engineering sounds like something we are used to hearing in sci-fi movies, and is so far fetched but now in 2005 we heard a scientist came out and said we have succesfully cloned a baby. I don't think people have the right to play with peoples lives, give them false hope. A human will never be able to clone another human, that is my opinion but it's supported by more then 90percent of the world. They create an genetic heart, and it fails, they create a genetic lung and it fails, for god's sake they can't even make a simple pill to cure a head ache without the side effect list being 2 pages long and big warning on it, may cause heart attack. People can dream, some act on thier dreams but not knowing what is a dream and what is a dream that can be realized is a pretty fat line. The law should ban genetic engineering, but it's the government that is actually doing this so I think it's highly hypocritical.

Are American Indians being treated fairly in the 1990s?

Some American Indians own casino's and they are rolling around in cadillacs and own hotels and resorts and businesses and have no grudge against the white man any more. While otheres are poor, uneducated and their brothers and sisters addicted to drugs and alcohol  and they have no money to get them to treatment.
I always see Natives under the bridge on my way to school and when ever I have some money I try to give, even though they say why? they'll just go buy booze with it. What if they go get a bite to eat. what if that 3 dollars i gave they have in thier pocket and they get a drink when they are really thirsty. We will never know what they do with the money they get everytime, I don't care If i have money to buy cigaretts and To buy Movies and Music I know I can spare a buck here and there for somebody that doesn't really know what they are doing because the world has turned their back on them and now they are lost. They took thier land, gave them alcohol and now they watch them dissapear from the face of the earth. http://www.dangerouscreation.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/homeless1.jpg

Should adoption records be open rather than sealed?

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Adoption records should be sealed with the permission of the parent only. If the parent that is giving the child away has to sign at that time wether or not she wants the records to be sealed. once sealed that cannot be changed anymore unless the adopters are willing to search for the parent in case the kid is wanting to meet them. On the other hand I don't think that children should ever be denied the right to meet thier parents. Even if they might not have a chance to create some type of relationship just knowing who means alot. Records should not be sealed because it does not do anybody any good. I think it's selfish of a parent to adopt and then want to in a sense steal that child, like finders keepers. but also if the adopters are rich and the mother is in a poor condition and is trying to take advantage of that is not right either. Finally adoption records should not be sealed because the kid and the parent have the right to know. they have a bond which no one can understand. Even our bond others can't understand. Everyone is different when it comes to this.